04-05-2006, 09:30 PM
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Executive Editor
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WebIS FlexWallet 2006 Rev 2 Now Released
"I am very happy to announce the release of FlexWallet 2006 Rev 2. Rev 2 contains a lot of changes including card level synching of multiple wallets, a bunch of small UI improvements, automatic backup on the desktop, password generator for SmartPhone, a recent card tray icon on the desktop, about 80 new icons, and several important bug fixes."
The what's new list has a lot of items on it, the most important of which (in my opinion) is card-level synching. That means that if you changed card "A" on your Pocket PC, and card "B" on your desktop PC, when you sync you won't have to chose between which wallet is the master file, it will sync the respective cards. Nice!
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04-05-2006, 09:42 PM
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Mystic
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Awesome. Sounds like some great updates. 
The download page is here if you don't want to browse through the WebIS site to find it.
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04-06-2006, 02:39 AM
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Philosopher
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This is a possibly stupid question, but how do I get card level syncronization to occur? I upgraded to 2006 Rev2, and I don't see any sort of screnn like in the screen shot provided indicating record level sync. I've looked at the options for both Flex Wallet and Activesync with no luck.
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04-06-2006, 02:44 AM
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Mystic
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Originally Posted by brianchris
This is a possibly stupid question, but how do I get card level syncronization to occur? I upgraded to 2006 Rev2, and I don't see any sort of screnn like in the screen shot provided indicating record level sync. I've looked at the options for both Flex Wallet and Activesync with no luck.
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I haven't experimented with this, but I believe card level syncronization just means that if you edit cards on both your mobile device and PC, then perform a sync, both changes will occur. This was different than prior versions, where they just copied the entire .fw2 file over to the other device, from whichever device had modified it most recently.
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04-06-2006, 02:50 AM
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Philosopher
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Originally Posted by OSUKid7
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Originally Posted by brianchris
This is a possibly stupid question, but how do I get card level syncronization to occur? I upgraded to 2006 Rev2, and I don't see any sort of screnn like in the screen shot provided indicating record level sync. I've looked at the options for both Flex Wallet and Activesync with no luck.
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I haven't experimented with this, but I believe card level syncronization just means that if you edit cards on both your mobile device and PC, then perform a sync, both changes will occur. This was different than prior versions, where they just copied the entire .fw2 file over to the other device, from whichever device had modified it most recently. |
Thanks for your reply.
I understand what card level syncronization means, I just didn't know how to start using it.....it appeared to me that it was still syncronizing at the FILE level AFTER I had upgraded to Rev2.
I have since answered my own question, and the answer may help others:
After you have installed or upgraded, go to Start > All Programs > WebIS FlexWallet > Wallet Sync Wizzard, and answer its questions. YOU CAN *NOT* DO CARD LEVEL SYNC IF THE WALLET FILE IS IN YOUR "PPC MY DOCUMENTS" FOLDER FOR FILE LEVEL SYNC. You must move it anywhere else (desktop's My Documents folder is recomended) and THEN run through the Wallet Sync Wizzard......works great now!
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04-06-2006, 03:11 AM
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Mystic
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Originally Posted by brianchris
After you have installed or upgraded, go to Start > All Programs > WebIS FlexWallet > Wallet Sync Wizzard, and answer its questions. YOU CAN *NOT* DO CARD LEVEL SYNC IF THE WALLET FILE IS IN YOUR "PPC MY DOCUMENTS" FOLDER FOR FILE LEVEL SYNC. You must move it anywhere else (desktop's My Documents folder is recomended) and THEN run through the Wallet Sync Wizzard......works great now!
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Ah, good to know. Yeah, I saw that message too, but haven't gotten around to moving my wallet file yet. Guess I just didn't put 2 and 2 together with your question. Glad you figured it out.
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04-06-2006, 03:37 AM
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Philosopher
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Anyone have a problem with the upgrade? I did. The desktop install went fine enough, but the installer complained when trying to install on my PPC. I couldn't get past the error message so my PPC wasn't upgraded. I tried a few variations over the last 40 minutes -- uninstalling everything, rebooting, installing a fresh copy of Rev 2 -- but I still get an error with the PPC install. I'm returning to Rev 1 now.... :-/
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04-06-2006, 03:47 AM
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Mystic
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Originally Posted by famousdavis
Anyone have a problem with the upgrade? I did. The desktop install went fine enough, but the installer complained when trying to install on my PPC. I couldn't get past the error message so my PPC wasn't upgraded. I tried a few variations over the last 40 minutes -- uninstalling everything, rebooting, installing a fresh copy of Rev 2 -- but I still get an error with the PPC install. I'm returning to Rev 1 now.... :-/
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Yeah, I had problems on all 3 devices... PC, Pocket PC, and Smartphone. (I'm still a fan of FlexWallet though.  ) With my Pocket PC, I rebooted into Safe Mode (with the help of Spb Pocket Plus) and uninstalled FlexWallet on my Pocket PC. I restarted my Smartphone and uninstalled it first. And on my PC, the Desktop version got uninstalled somehow, and then wouldn't reinstall until I uninstalled it.
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04-06-2006, 03:52 AM
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Thinker
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On the PPC the installs usually work pretty flawlessly. We've run it publicly quite a bit over the last 3 months - but it would be helpful to know
#1 where is it installed
#2 are you synching when its installed
#3 what device/OS you have?
THis is general installer troubleshooting basically and nothing specific to FlexWallet. The other thing to try is uninstall on the PPC, then manually delete the installed folder (everything is in there). Then soft reset and reinstall. Sometimes a file might get used or setup in a way that keeps it from being overwritten.
One thing to keep in mind is that while the installer on the PPC and SmartPhone is identical to how all installers work under Windows Mobile and also is nearly identical to the ones used for FlexMail, Pocket Informant, Mobile Sync, etc... - the desktop installer is radically different from Rev 1. Rev 1 used NSIS for the install which did not properly install the MFC8 libraries on some people's machines while Rev 2 uses InstallShield which does properly install. We setup IS to remove the Rev 1 install before installing Rev 2, but sometimes depending on the desktop config it may not work. We've also seen some weird ActiveSync/InstallShield issues with ActiveSync 3.8 and below during install that we don't see with NSIS.
Finally, we just found out that if you have Norton Antivirus enabled - InstallShield will crash at the end. So do make sure you turn off all antivirus software before doing the install.
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04-06-2006, 04:12 AM
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Philosopher
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Originally Posted by alex_kac
On the PPC the installs usually work pretty flawlessly. We've run it publicly quite a bit over the last 3 months - but it would be helpful to know
#1 where is it installed
#2 are you synching when its installed
#3 what device/OS you have?
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#1 Built-in storage
#2 Yes, I'm using ActiveSync 3.7.1
#3 X50v with WM2003 / XP Pro SP-2 on the desktop
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Originally Posted by alex_kac
Finally, we just found out that if you have Norton Antivirus enabled - InstallShield will crash at the end. So do make sure you turn off all antivirus software before doing the install.
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I do use Norton Internet Security, and I usually only turn it off if/when an installer program suggests it. FlexWallet's installer didn't say anything about it.
Given the lost time tonight, I doubt I'll upgrade to Rev 2. I only update cards on my PPC, and I haven't encountered any UI bugs to motivate me to make another attempt at it. It's been a disappointing evening for me....
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